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SSP P SAKELLAROPOULOS ·Greece
About this project
<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif">The project aims to research and challenge the stigmatization of mental health service users through the Greek media (language, images, discourse) that generate or preserve stereotypes around mental health per se leading a large population to social and economic exclusion.</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif">The objective is to suggest changes in the stigmatizing media and public speech through training & recommendations leading, therefore, to a more responsible stance towards mental health service users through trainings and use of appropriate mental health language in order to avoid risky generalizations (criminalization) and eliminate their-often unquestioning- social and vocational exclusion. </span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif">Implementation activities: 1. Media mapping/research 2. Development of educational tools (</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif">π</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif">.</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif">χ</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif">. mental health language guide for media) 3. Institutional changes (recommendations on laws etc) </span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif">Beneficiaries: mental health service users, media (journalists, media students, citizen journalists), supervisory bodies</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif">Society of Social Psychiatry & Mental Health (project leader) </span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif">The Center of European Constitutional Law : legislative review and policy recommendations and advocacy.</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif">Society of Care and Rehabilitation of People with Psychosocial Problems represents mental health services’ users in advocacy activities and research</span></span></p>